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The University of Kansas 

MEMORIAL 

The Stadium The Kansas Union 

The Green Memorial 



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The Memorial Campaign 



The University of Kansas Memorial Corporation is an or- 
ganization devoted to the fulfillment of the Memorial purposes. 

Its definite task is to finance and complete two Memorial 
structures — the Stadium and the Kansas Union — and to place 
upon the campus the statue of the late Dean James Woods Green. 
The sum of one million dollars is now being raised to make these 
memorials possible. 

The Stadium and the Kansas Union each will cost approxi- 
mately five hundred thousand dollars. The statue of Dean Green, 
to be executed by Daniel Chester French, will cost forty thousand 
dollars. 

Six hundred and fifteen thousand dollars have been pledged 
by University students and faculty, and by citizens of Kansas 
City, Lawrence, Topeka, and Hutchinson. Payments are to be 
made over a four-year period. 

Construction on the Stadium was begun July 16, 1921, under 
a partial contract, which provides for complete grading and con- 
ditioning of the field, and the completion of fifteen thousand 
seats of the eventual total of thirty-two thousand. 

A committee is going forward with plans for the Kansas 
Union, which will be a great University and State community 
center. 

This Memorial booklet has been prepared to explain the Me- 
morial project, with the anticipation of generous support for the 
Memorial by those interested in the University. 




IN COMMEMORATION 



MORE THAN THREE 

THOUSAND FORMER 

STUDENTS OF THE 

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS 

ENTERED SERVICE IN 

THE WORLD WAR 

ONE HUNDRED TWENTY 
SIX GAVE THEIR LIVES 

IN COMMEMORATION OF 

THE KANSAS SACRIFICE 

IN SERVICE THE 

MEMORIAL IS 

DEDICATED 



In Flanders Fields 



In Flanders fields the poppies blow 
Between our crosses, row' on row 
That mark our place: and in the sky 
The larks still bravely singing fly, 
Scarce heard amid the guns below. 
We are the dead, short days ago 
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow. 
Loved and were loved, and now we lie 
In Flanders fields. 



Take up our quarrel with the foe. 
To you Jrorn failing hands ive throzv 
The Torch — be yours to hold it high! 
If ye break faith with those who die, 
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow 
In Flanders Fields. 

—John McCrae 



PAUL DEAN ADAMSON 
LIONEL A. ANDERSON 

THATCHER WYLLYS BENSON 
MORRIS AUSTIN BLACKER 
JOHN TRENTINI BOSSI 
VICTOR K. D. BLAKELY 
ALBERT ELLIS BIRCH 
MARK BEACH 

RALPH ASHBURN BRANCH 
LAUREL BRANDENBURG 
EDWIN SAMUEL BROWN 
MAX LOWELL BROWN 
RALPH STANLEY BUSCH 
GEORGE G. CALNON 
PAUL CAREY CARLTON 
HENRY LEE CHERRY 

EUGENE WILSON CALDWELL 
FRANCIS HAROLD CAMPBELL 
FRED COOLEY CAMPBELL 
JOHN WILFORD CHARLTON 
MARION LESLIE CARTER 
CLARENCE LEROY COLE 
WILLIAM P. CREEK 
CHAS. L. CONE 

HENRY CHRISTO CHRISTOFF 
WILLIAM EDWIN COURTNEY 
GLEN CLAYPOOL COONS 
LLOYD McKINLEY CROOKS 
ROBERT CLYDE CULTER 
CARL C. CULVER 
JAMES GANSON DANIELS 
ELI FERRILL DORSEY 



TOM CROSBY POWELL DEACON 
THROCK MORTON DAVIDSON 
OTTO ERNST DINGELSTEDT 
CHARLES JACKSON DRAKE 
JAMES RAYMOND EBNOTHER 
GEORGE H. EDWARDS, JR. 
RALPH ELLIS 
HARRY HAROLD EVANS 
FRANK J. FISHER 

VERNON E. FAHLSTROM 

WILHELM RUDOLPH FISHER 
WILLIAM T. FITZSIMMONS 
VERNE ED. FRANK 

FAY SARAH FRIEDBERG 

ED. ALLISON FOULKS 

JOHN D. GARVER 

A. J. GOODWIN 

PAUL NORTHCRAFT GLEISSNER 
EVERETT JOY GRECIAN 
CHARLES F. GRAVES 

ROBERT STAUFFER HEIZER 
DENNIS ALBERT HAROLD 
GILMAN CASE HARDING 
RUSSELL C. HEPLER 
IRVIN HAURY 

EUGENE HIPPLE 
ITHO RAE HOBSON 
VICTOR ABELL HUNT 

MORRIS BURDETTE JONES 
GEORGE WILLIAM JARBOE 
AMOS DANIEL JOHNSON 
JARED FOX JACKSON 
FRANK B. KIMPLER 



FREDERICK EARL KEEN 
JOSEPH STEPHENS KONANTZ 
FREDERICK PAUL KOBLER 
GEORGE J. KNOBLAUCH 
LeRUE S. KINGSBURY 
SCOTT L. LENNEN 
AMBROSE WM. LEWELLEN 
ROBERT DALE LEWIS 



VALENTINE SIMPSON RADER 
WILLIAM WILKINSON RENO 
DELMER H. RHODES 

THEODORE A. ROCKLUND 
ROSS J. RUMMEL 

CHARLES DEE SEWARD 
JOHN PAUL SLADE 

HARRY B. SLAYMAKER 



GILBERT McARTHUR LEWIS 
JOSEPH CLARENCE LIGGETT 
VANDEVEER MERLE MARTIN 
ADELBERT D. McCLEVERTY 
CLARK WM. McCOLLOCH 

HUBERT CORCORAN McKAY 
BERNARD F. McMEEL 
BRYON H. MEHL 

LUCY CATHERINE McLINDEN 
LEROY FRANCIS MEDLOCK 
CASPER J. MIDDLEKAUFF 
ELMER LEAVITT MORRISON 
ROBERT THOMAS MELTON 
WILLIAM SAMUEL MURPHY 
WILLIAM S. NICHOLS 
PAUL OAKLEAF 



FREDERICK R. O'DONNELL 
CLAUDE J. OSHEL 

WILLIE MILTON PAINTER 
JOHN ANDREW PEPPER 

ELMER RICHARD PIEHLER 
WILLIAM JAY PLANK 
VERGIL E. PORTER 
CLAUDE RAWLINGS 



JEWELL RHODUS SCHREINER 
HOWARD ARTHUR SKAER 
PETER STERLING SMITH 
HUBERT CLARENCE TAYLOR 
HAROLD DeBOLT THURMAN 
ROBERT STEELE THURMAN 
CARL B. TROWBRIDGE 

DEAN THURMAN 

JAMES NOELL TATE 
JOHN A. TRAVER 

WILLIAM WAYNE WILSON 
JAMES GILBERT WATSON 
HARLAN PAUL WARREN 
ERNEST E. WEIBE.L 

BENJAMIN WARD J. WORRALL 
STANLEY EUGENE WHITSETT 
WILLIS G. WHITTEN 
CHARLES R. WOODY 
WM. M. WYATT 

SAMUEL G. WILLIAMS 
HARRY CHARLES ZIESENIS 



Memorial list compiled by M. W. Sterling, '83. 








CHANCELLOR E. H. LINDLEY 

The inspiring force for the new era at K. U. His leadership is responsible, 
more than any other factor, for the success in the Memorial campaign. 



The Memorial Significance 

By E. H. Lindley 



The Million Dollar Memorial campaign has already passed 
half way to its goal. The Memorial appeal has aroused beyond 
expectations, the loyalty and enthusiasm of friends of the 
University. Each successive drive has exceeded the quota and 
has brought the alumni and former students into an inspiring 
unity in support of the University and an enthusiasm for the 
great objectives which the movement represents. 

The success of the campaign is due in part to the admirable 
organization of local communities aided by the Alumni Associa- 
tion. But no less important is the intrinsic appeal of the objects 
of the campaign. 

First, the Stadium embodies not only the growing apprecia- 
tion in America of the value of competitive sports and games but 
reflects a growing consciousness of the need of a better physical 
education of the young people of Kansas. Furthermore, a Sta- 
dium proves a great rallying point for friends of wholesome out- 
door sports and makes a great contribution to University spirit. 

The Kansas Union appeals as a much needed center not 
only for the student body but as the home of visiting former 
students and friends of the University. The success of the Union 
at the University of Michigan in bringing together students of 
all sorts and groups into the domestic atmosphere of loyalty to 
the University thus contributes indispensable elements to the en- 
richment of the personal life of students and provides equal hos- 
pitality for visiting alumni and friends. 

But far above the utilities of the Stadium and Union is 
the memorial motive. These structures embody the desire to 
make dynamic in the lives of the generations of Kansas students 
the sacrifices of our men students who fell in the great war. By 
virtue of these memorials, Mount Oread is to be a great state 
shrine celebrating patriotism, sacrifices and gratitude for sacri- 
fices. 

The boys who died in France thus live in the enriched lives 



of the successive generations of students. These students will 
thereby be led to the deeper meaning of service to state, to na- 
tion and to mankind. 

The Green memorial, a statue by a great sculptor embody- 
ing in marble a great love which nourished the soul of many youths 
will be to each new generation of Kansas students a revelation 
of the "Soul of a University." These are incalculable services. 
They are worthy of the sacrificial giving of all who love the 
higher life generated by a great University. 

The Memorial campaign will attain success. Already those 
who have shared actively in the enterprise have discovered the 
joy of devotion to a great cause. They also have found out the 
secret of the greatness of a University. 

A University is only as great as is the idealism and devo- 
tion of its faculty, students and alumni. This devotion comes 
only through deep affection and affection attains its heights 
only through sacrificial giving of money — of self. Out of the 
great memorial offering and its attendant activities will surely 
come a new University of Kansas worthy of the veneration and 
support of all the people — an institution embodying the finest 
aspirations of the great and idealistic commonwealth of Kansas. 

The University is at the parting of the ways. Success 
now of its enterprises will surely carry it to the proud place it 
should hold among the best of state universities. 




The Memorial Officers 



Direction of affairs in connection with the Memorial is 
in the hands of officers and directors of the Memorial Corpora- 
tion. The personnel includes state officers, University officials 
and alumni of wide experience. The present personnel will be 
enlarged as the Memorial campaign is extended. 

Officers of the Memorial Corporation are: 

Chancellor E. H. Lindley, president; W. Y. Morgan, '85, and Irving Hill, '96, 
president Alumni Association, vice-presidents; W. J. Baumgartner, '00, organization 
secretary; Orlin A. Weede, '13, special representative; George 0. Foster, '01, treasurer; 
Alfred G. Hill, '17, secretary. 

The Directors are: 

Chancellor Lindley, Governor Henry J. Allen, State Manager James A. Kim- 
ball, J. C. Nichols, '02, Irving Hill, Frank Crowell, '88, George L. Kreeck, T. J. Sweeney, 
H. B. Ober, John Porter, '21, John Bunn, '21, Dorothy Stanley, '22, W. J. Baumgartner, 
'00, C. C. Williams, George T. Guernsey, Jr., '04, W. Y. Morgan, '85, Mrs. John S. 
Weaver, '95, Charles P. Woodbury, '12, Alfred G. Hill, M. L. Breidenthal, '10, R. J. 
Delano, '03. 

The Executive Committee members are: 

Chancellor Lindley, Thornton Cooke, '93, R. J. Delano, Irving Hill, T. J. 
Sweeney, F. C Allen, W. J. Baumgartner. Judge C A. Smart is attorney. 

Members of the Finance Committee are : 

Thornton Cooke C H. Tucker, Chester Woodward, '96, T. J. Sweeney, 
Irving Hill. 




The Memorial Stadium 





By Forrest C. Allen 
Director of Athletics 



Kansas possesses a most enviable ath- 
letic tradition. Just twenty-nine years ago 
this fall a vaunted Illinois gridiron machine 
invaded the Kansas camp — signalizing the 
opening of McCook field. Kansas defeated 
the Illini 26 to 4. 

McCook field has witnessed the develop- 
ment of the University's athletic history as 
the scene of many noteworthy contests in 
which the name of the Jayhawker has been 
linked with that of honored enemies, the 
Tiger, Cornhusker and Sooner. 

Now the tall, rickety bleachers on Mc- 
Cook have disappeared to give place to the gigantic horseshoe 
extending both north and south beyond the old McCook. 

Here in the completed Memorial Stadium 32,000 persons 
may sit in comfort and safety. Let us look at this picture — a 
great "U" shaped structure, six hundred twenty-one feet long, 
four hundred sixty-five feet wide and forty-seven feet high. 

The acquisition of land to the north makes possible three 
approaches on as many paved streets, which in turn connect with 
the hard-surfaced Fort-to-Fort Highway, the Golden Belt and 
other roads leading to the far ends of Kansas. 

The sure footing so necessary in football is insured by a 
gridiron which will be well drained one hour after the heaviest 
rain, two and a half miles of tile being laid under the field. The 
space under the Stadium will afford locker rooms and training 
quarters for the athletes in all sports. 

We are promised 10,000 seats for our Aggie-Kansas game 
October 29 and 15,000 for our Thanksgiving Homecoming game 
with Missouri. Welcome home ye loyal sons and daughters of 
Kansas to your Alma Mater. 



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The Kansas Union 



Realization of the importance of the Kansas Union build- 
ing grows with study. It will mean a building equipped for all 
the uses of University social life, a democratic meeting ground 
for the whole University, women and men. 

H. E. Riggs, K. U. '86, head of the civil engineering depart- 
ment in the University of Michigan, and one of the men primar- 
ily responsible for 'the $1,200,000 Michigan Union Building, out- 
lines these five significant reasons for the Kansas Union: 

1. The Union makes it possible for the University to in- 
vite and properly entertain conventions. 

2. The Union affords a comfortable, homelike place for 
the returning K. U. men and women. Former students and visit- 
ors, stopping at the University for brief periods, use it as a club 
and hotel. 

3. The Union makes possible closer association of the 
different groups in the University. 

4. The Union permits guidance of student activities. 

5. The Union emphasizes the democracy of the State Uni- 
versity. 

The views of the Michigan Union on the opposite page sug- 
gest the possibilities of the proposed Kansas Union. In Michi- 
gan, as many as 15,000 persons use the Union in a day. The 
facilities include those for dining, conference, reading, recrea- 
tion, and lodging. 




"UNCLE JIMMY" 

By Terrence J. Madden 
President James Woods Green Memorial Association 



In the heart of all K. U. is the sentiment that the memory of 
Uncle Jimmy Green may never die. To perpetuate it, it is proposed to 
erect on the campus near Green Hall a memorial that will not only 
symbolize,but idealize his life. 

To do this, we have selected Daniel Chester French, who, in the 
art of portraying personality, is the foremost sculptor of the world today. 
The French memorial statue of Lincoln gives us reason to believe and 
expect that the product of Mr. French's genius for K. U. will be a 
triumph of art. It will be a source of pride and inspiration for our 
University, and it will glorify the memory of our departed Dean. 



The Call From Mount Oread 



Far above the golden valley 

Glorious to view, 
Stands our noble Alma Mater 

Toivering toward the blue. 



THE MEMORIAL STRUCTURES— No proposal to erect a marble 
shaft or a granite monument could appeal to the sons and daughters 
of Kansas as do the Stadium and the Union — Memorial structures of 
personal and intimate character, which, with the statue of Dean Green, 
are fitting as the gifts of friends and former students. The legislature 
can do no more than meet the demands of a rapidly growing University 
for class and laboratory buildings and raising salaries to an advantageous 
standard. 

THE CAUSE OF HIGHER EDUCATION— The Memorial carries 
with it the cause of higher education. We can no longer afford to leave 
the development of character, judgment and capacity to chance. The 
University of Kansas is a power station of mind, equipped to train and 
develop the faculties latent in man; to elicit, strengthen and guide the 
forces of character and intellect, originality and knowledge, thought and 
judgment, vision and action, wisdom and enterprise. The Memorial means 
the advancement of the University to a far greater extent than the 
present gift. The dividends are added loyalty and interest from friends ; 
added support from the state; added strength for our student body here- 
after. 

LOYALTY AND APPRECIATION— The Memorial appeal comes 
from the University of Kansas, now arriving at mature years, and pos- 
sessing alumni and friends as loyal in spirit as those of older and private 
institutions. It is the first general opportunity ever offered for expres- 
sion of material loyalty to K. U. The State has spent two hundred and 
fifty dollars annually above tuition for each student. Here is opportunity 
to meet an obligation, even though it is impossible to pay a debt to those 
of the University who gave us inspiration and developed our capacities. 

THE STANDARD OF GIFTS— One million dollars cannot be raised 
by small contributions. Realizing this, hundreds engaged in the Memorial 
campaign already have contributed correspondingly, bearing in mind that 
subscriptions are payable over a four year period. Thirty-four gifts of 
one thousand dollars or more came from Kansas City alone. In Lawrence 
eight hundred former students and friends gave an average of one hundred 
seventy-five dollars. In Kansas City the average was one hundred sixty- 
three dollars, counting numerous outside contributions of smaller size. 
In Topeka and Hutchinson the same high standard was maintained. 
Topeka, where addresses of less than three hundred former students were 



known, subscribed forty-two thousand dollars with four hundred fifteen 
contributors. 

FACTS OF IMPORTANCE— Four hundred thousand dollars remain 
to be raised before the Memorial goal is reached. To former K. U. 
students throughout the nation and world the appeal to contribute to- 
ward the Memorial is sent. Solicitation for the Memorial is being con- 
ducted first by means of community campaigns conducted by former 
students. Contributions are offered through pledges of payment to be 
made over a four year period, making possible larger gifts than otherwise. 
All contributions are made to the Memorial Corporation of the University 
of Kansas, the organization in charge of the Memorial. 




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UNIVERSITY OP KANSAS 

NEWS LETTER 

Admitted August 24, 1912, at the post- 
office at Lawrence, Kansas. Accepted 
for mailing at special rates for post- 
age provided for it. Sec. 1103. Act of 
October 3. 1917. 

lihis News Letter edited by 

ALFRED G. HILL 

Secretary Memorial Corporation 

K. U. Alumni office 

Vol. XX September-October No. 1, 






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